A project in danger of going off...plan!

(QBĐT) - A series of construction projects worth hundreds of billions of VND have been left unfinished for a long time, not only causing waste but also causing public concern about the environment and landscape... That is the current situation at a project in Bao Ninh commune (Dong Hoi city). Even more worrying, the project is at risk of not being completed according to the assigned plan.

Through information reported by readers, Quang Binh Newspaper reporters investigated and learned that: A series of construction items above belong to 3 bidding packages (DH/W4, DH/W5 and DH/W8) of the project on Developing the environment and urban infrastructure to respond to climate change in Dong Hoi City managed by the Dong Hoi City Environment and Climate Change Project Management Board (MT-BDKH Project Management Board).

The project has a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the province's counterpart capital with the goal of investing in the construction of traffic routes to create climate change-adaptive infrastructure for the Bao Ninh peninsula to promote sustainable socio -economic development of Dong Hoi city, creating competition, attracting investment and tourism for the province.

The drainage system at the DH/W4 package has not been completed, leading to environmental pollution and loss of aesthetics.

Reporters went to the project's bidding packages and noted that a series of construction items, such as: Traffic routes, sewer systems, drainage pipes... were built in short sections in an unfinished state, covered with "moss" due to being "abandoned" for a long time. Clear evidence is that many poplar trees grew from construction items taller than a person, some even over 2m tall; some reinforced concrete structures to build the drainage system were lying next to the steel structures that were heavily rusted by the sun, rain, and salty seawater; unfinished construction items had no machinery, construction vehicles, camps, or workers or engineers on site...

When seeing reporters filming, many people came to share that they were very sorry for this situation and hoped that authorities and sectors would soon have solutions to complete the traffic system and put it into use soon, both to help with convenient travel and to have a clean and beautiful landscape and environment.

According to the Dong Hoi City MT-BDKH Project Management Board, the above situation is due to difficulties in site clearance (GPMB) carried out by the Dong Hoi City People's Committee. Due to difficulties in GPMB, the implementation results of these packages are very low. Specifically: Package DH/W4 (route along 36M: KM1.387-2.919) is constructed by the joint venture contractor Tien Dat Construction Company Limited, Long Thanh Traffic Construction Joint Stock Company, 668 Consulting Joint Stock Company, with a total contract value of more than 133.8 billion VND. The package started construction on June 17, 2020 and was scheduled to be completed by December 31, 2024, but currently the construction volume has only reached 35%.

A construction item in the DH/W8 package is under construction and

Similarly, in the DH/W8 package (36M longitudinal route: KM0-1.387), the total contract value of more than 79.3 billion VND implemented by the contractor 471 Joint Stock Company started construction on June 17, 2020 and the completion date is December 31, 2024, however, the contractor has only completed 48.46% of the work volume.

On March 13, 2024, the Dong Hoi City Environmental Protection Project Management Board issued Document No. 153/BQLDA reporting on the implementation status and difficulties and problems of the above ADB loan project to the Provincial People's Committee. And on March 20, 2024, the Provincial People's Committee Office issued Document No. 1199/VPUBND-KT conveying the direction of Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Phan Phong Phu with the following content: Assign the Department of Planning and Investment to preside over and coordinate with relevant departments and branches to urgently study the proposed content of the Dong Hoi City Environmental Protection Project Management Board to advise, propose and report to the Provincial People's Committee in accordance with the provisions of law; Dong Hoi City People's Committee urgently resolves problems in the project's site clearance work to ensure the project is implemented on schedule.

The DH/W5 package alone (construction of 3 level crossings) has a total contract value of 57.5 billion VND, started by Infrastructure Construction and Development Joint Stock Company on November 11, 2020, with few obstacles in site clearance work, so the construction volume reached 86.24%. To date, the package has basically completed important items at level crossings No. 1, 2 and 3.

The common point of the 3 packages is that they are stuck with land acquisition and site clearance to hand over to contractors for construction, in which the problems have not been thoroughly resolved and especially the lack of counterpart funds to pay for compensation and land acquisition (this issue was mentioned by Quang Binh Newspaper in the article "When to wait" published on March 11, 2024), leading to the risk of not being able to get land acquisition and not completing the project items as planned.

According to the Dong Hoi City MT-BDMB Project Management Board, the project will end on December 31, 2024. However, currently, the extension to complete the project has not been approved by the relevant authorities from the provincial to central levels, and it is not yet known whether ADB will agree to the extension or not. If the extension is not granted and the site clearance work remains "at a standstill", the risk of the project not being completed is real. For the two packages DH/W4 and DH/W8, the remaining work volume, if in favorable weather conditions and without site clearance problems, will have to be completed in about 10 months; meanwhile, the remaining time is more than 8 months and from September to November, our province often has storms, so it will be difficult to construct...

Bui Thanh

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